Tur admits to some hesitancy in taking the 2 p.m. Wilkinson refused to take the bait, instead repeating, “My client knows that he didn’t do this.” “That these women are part of a con by the Democrats and that the Democrats are laughing in a backroom about what they are able to pull off?” “Does your client believe it’s a con game by the Democrats?” Tur asked. They go into a back room and they talk with each other and they laugh at what they are getting away with.’” They know what they’re doing, it’s a con. He’s a gem and he’s being treated unfairly by the Democrats who are playing a con game. “Let me read you something the president said about this this morning,” Tur said to Beth Wilkinson, Kavanaugh’s lawyer: “‘You don’t find people like this. When the lawyer for Brett Kavanaugh came on Tur’s show after a third woman came forward to accuse the then-Supreme Court nominee of past sexual misconduct, Tur burrowed in, demanding to know if Kavanaugh thought the woman was lying and whether his accusers, including the original one, Christine Blasey Ford, were part of a Democratic plot to derail his nomination. Of building that daytime lineup around women, Lack said, “It was not conscious, but it is enjoyable for me. While the company has come under considerable criticism for its perceived sluggish investigation of sexual harassment claims at NBC (see: Matt Lauer) and the controversial handling of Ronan Farrow’s reporting on Harvey Weinstein (which Farrow took to The New Yorker and then won a Pulitzer for his work), it was also he who oversaw a major overhaul of MSNBC, and who believed reporting should drive the dayside hours, with the nighttime serving as the home for more opinion-led content. This has been the result of the directive set forth by Andrew Lack, who returned to NBC in 2015, this time as chairman of both NBC News and MSNBC. I’ve seen it when it was not so great in the ’80s and ’90s.” I know this better than anyone, having been here 41 years. “Our leaders, our company are so committed to women’s advancement. “Nothing happens by accident,” said Andrea Mitchell, NBC’s chief foreign affairs correspondent, who has anchored her own show, “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” at noon ET since 2008. And in the United States, women are now the executive producers of all three network morning shows. As Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan recently pointed out, the BBC has gone to considerable lengths to make sure that women take prominent roles on its airwaves.
To be certain, these moves have not occurred within a vacuum. Between the bombast of Joe Scarborough in the early-morning hours and the opinion-driven fist-pounding of Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell in the evening, the news anchor positions these five women now hold at the network reflect a telling shift in the ever-changing, ever-shuffling world of cable news. This morning, as Ruhle readies herself to take control from the unwieldy forces of “Morning Joe” and begin her own hourlong program, she does so as a leadoff hitter for a lineup that has helped reshape the landscape of television. “I think it worked out that way because it’s who rose to the level at that point.”īut the fact is that they did rise. “When I started at NBC, I’m quite sure there wasn’t a plan or initiative that we need to make sure the girls are anchoring the shows,” said Ruhle, a former managing director at Deutsche Bank, who began her show in July 2016. in late May and Ruhle, who anchors “MSNBC Live With Stephanie Ruhle,” was referring to the photo shoot two days earlier when she and four other female anchors on MSNBC’s daytime schedule - Katy Tur, Hallie Jackson, Nicolle Wallace and Andrea Mitchell - had gathered in Manhattan for a group photo. “We should have been blasting ‘9 to 5,’” said Stephanie Ruhle, sitting at her anchor desk in the MSNBC studio at 30 Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan.
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